Nordic History
America’s Bill Koch won the 1982 season-long World Cup of Cross-country skiing by switching from classic kick-and-stride to the new propulsive power of skating.
Our Histories encompass speed-skiing records since the mid-1800s to 2000, plus a century-and-a-half Timeline of Important Ski History Dates. As a work in progress, the list of ISHA historical resources is constantly growing, as our archive expands and updates. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, let us know by joining ISHA’s Facebook page
Women’s Ski Jumping Takes Aim at the Winter Olympics
A century-and-a-half after a Norwegian woman soared 20 feet in the world’s first recorded ski-jumping event, female flyers were still fighting for international recognition. At the first recorded...
Cross-Country Skating: How it Started
Few sports have changed as rapidly and dramatically as did cross-country skiing in the 1980s. For more than a hundred years cross-country competitors had universally raced with the ancient diagonal...